For many people, Valentine's Day can be an isolating time. The dominant Valentine's Day narrative insists that to be in a romantic relationship is to be happy. And for many single people, the day can come with pressure to ...
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The COVID-19 pandemic spurred a global shift to remote work, with the latest evidence suggesting almost half of workers in Canada are still regularly working remotely. Employers are grappling with how to strike the right ...
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Dec 7, 2022
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How does job satisfaction sit with the notion of work-life balance? Writing in the International Journal of Services and Operations Management, a research team from Portugal point out that a positive and stable work environment ...
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Nov 29, 2022
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A team of researchers at the University of British Columbia, working with two wealthy donors has found that transferring money from rich people to poor people can increase the level of happiness reported by the poor people ...
From abortion to book bans, critical race theory and transgender rights, much political rhetoric in the run-up to the mid-term elections in the United States has centered around "culture war" issues.
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Nov 8, 2022
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A team of researchers at Harvard University, working with a colleague from the University of Virginia and another from Ramon Llull University, has found via surveys that people who interact with a wide variety of other people ...
We often hear about the negative impacts of social media on our well-being, but we don't usually think of it the other way round—whereby how we feel may impact how we use social media.
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Oct 17, 2022
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A pair of researchers at the University of Oxford's Wellbeing Research Center, reports that numerical ratings people use to measure their feelings have value. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy ...
We aren't very good at predicting what will make us happy. That is one finding from a study by Basel economists. They investigated the effects of purchasing a home on life satisfaction. The positive effect on happiness did ...
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Sep 20, 2022
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Having stronger religious beliefs is linked to higher levels of sexual satisfaction, a new study shows.
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Aug 30, 2022
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